Lady Harborough... was on the platform, making a short spee… - Philip Pullman

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Lady Harborough... was on the platform, making a short speech in which she described the valuable work her hospital fund was doing. It seemed to consist largely of rescuing unmarried mothers from poverty and subjecting them to slavery instead, with the additional disadvantage of being preached at daily by evangelical clergymen.

Philip Pullman

The Shadow in the North · August 23, 1997 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Philip Pullman CBE (born October 19, 1946) is an English writer. He is the best-selling author of His Dark Materials, a trilogy of fantasy novels, and a number of other books.

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